Groovy Hologram and Radially Polarized Light Beam (IMAGE)

Harvard University

Groovy Hologram and Radially Polarized Light Beam

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Left: holographic component fabricated by ion milling with a focused ion beam a 150-nanometer-thick gold film deposited on a glass substrate. A laser beam is partially transformed into a radially polarized beam as it traverses the device. The wide grooves create the donut-shaped intensity profile, known as a vortex, while the sub-wavelength nanometer grooves in the inset determine locally the radial polarization, which is perpendicular to the grooves. Right: The computed characteristic beam cross-section; the blue arrows indicate the radial polarization.

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Federico Capasso, Harvard SEAS

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